Game apparatus



A. 0. COULLIARD.

GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 14, I920.

1,387,241. PatentedAug 9,1921.

.% lii 7 4 INVENTOR A TTORNEYS ALBERT O. COULLIA/ED. BY

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT O. COULLIARD, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9.1921.

Application filed December 14, 1920. Serial No. 430,642.

- the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

Th1s invention relates to improvements 111 game apparatus, particularly to that form of game apparatus in which the operator endeavors to assemble certain eccentrically movable members Within a fixed space on a field.

An object of the'invention is to provide an apparatus in which great skill on the part of the operator will be required to assemble these members.

A further object is to provide a game apparatus Which will be neat and attractive in appearance, 7 which will prove interesting and amusing, and which will be comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and an rangements of parts, .as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim. I e 3 In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved game apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a view in transverse section through one end of the box.

Referring in detail tothe drawing, 1 represents a square game board, the upper face of which constitutes a field. At each side of the field there is located anups'tanding wall orflange 2. The game boardand its surrounding wall form a shallow box-like container.

At the center of the field there is a circle 3. Upstanding partitions 4 disposed diametrically with regard to the circle, intersect at right angles so that the circle and the partitions cooperate to form four sectoral areas 5 defined ontwo sides by the partitions and on their third sides by the arcs of the circle. The partitions tare preferably parallel to the walls 2, and within the circle.

f posed upstanding are confined entirely Associated with the field and movable thereon are a pair of eccentrically movable devices in the form of the conventional weighted tumblers 6, each having one red end and one blue end. These particular colors may of course be varied to suit-the trade. A suitable caption 7 such as the words Safety zone may be displayed with in the. circle 3.

Several games which are designated as Safety first ratus. by the operator in either one or both hands and tilted to cause both tumblers to stand erect in one of the compartments of the may be played with the appasafety zone with the same colored ends up,

or theboX may be manipulated to cause both tumblers to stand erect in different compartments of the safety zone.

Owing to, the eccentric movement characteristic of the weighted tumblers, it is very .difficult to assemble them in'upright position within the central areas so that the game will prove diflicult as well as interest;

The particular number of tumblers to be used is immaterial,.and obviously various other slight changes andalterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of the board and men without depart ing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such chan'ges'and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of What I claim is: r In a. game apparatus, a shallow rectangular box-like container. the base of said con tainer forming a field having a centrally disposed circle thereon, diametrically opintersecting partitions parallel to the wall of the container, and dividing the circle into sectors, a plurality of weighted tumblers adapted to be actuated by tilting the field, said circle having dis played therein a caption including the words Safety zone. I

the appended claim.

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